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In the previous essay in this series, we honored Blessed Otto Neururer, the first priest to be executed by the Nazis. We also acknowledged those better-known victims of the Third Reich’s anti-Christian pogrom, St. Maximilian Kolbe and St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein). It is also fitting, however, that we should commemorate some…
Of all the correspondence compiled by St. Paul documenting salvation through the Event of Jesus Christ—who alone set about redeeming us all because in Adam’s fall we sinned all—the Epistle to the Romans is clearly the lengthiest of them all. It is also the most impressive, easily eclipsing everything else he wrote. “An alpine peak…
I don’t know about you, but sometimes I really hate modernity. I know, I know, not everything was better in the past. For one, I am very grateful for things like indoor plumbing and refrigeration, and I am well aware that men have been sinners from the get-go, and therefore every age has its drama…
The current neo-Modernist crisis marring the Mystical Body of Christ has left many of its members disillusioned. According to Pope Paul VI, the Second Vatican Council was supposed to signal “a day of sunshine for the history of the Church.”[1] As of 2025, though, it is clear that the majority of Catholics are apostates who…
Call it a midlife crisis, call it a dark night of the soul, or call it whatever you like; the last few years have not been kind to me. Failures and regrets have abounded. Severe health crises, several lost pregnancies mid-term, job insecurities, bad investments, and familial stresses have all taken their toll to severely…
There was cause for celebration for Catholics in France at this year’s Easter Vigil. Figures released by the Bishops’ Conference of France announced that 10,384 adults would receive the sacrament of baptism at the 2025 Easter Vigil. This is an increase of 45 percent over the 7,135 adults who were baptized in 2024 and a…
Above: Lipetsk, Russia Published in Paris in 1885, in order to protect the author from possible persecution by the Russian imperial authorities, Solovyov’s work La Russie et l’Église universelle (Russia and the Universal Church) [1] contains a section whose reading played a decisive role in my conversion from Eastern Orthodoxy to Rome. This part of…
Above: a photo op with the Synod on Synodality. Source. The Scene: Several months have elapsed since the death of the pope. After days of debate over who might become the next pontiff, speculation has turned to when the conclave will be over. What is taking so long? Rumors abound: might there be fierce infighting…
Following the passing of Pope Francis, I have been disturbed not by the ensuing commentary but by some of the callousness and cruelty that emerged from certain ideological camps. After I made a simple and respectful post on social media about his passing, I encountered a series of unhinged, dehumanizing responses. Some came from self-proclaimed…
Does anybody in the hierarchy still believe that not all dogs and people go to Heaven…at least immediately? Following the announcement of John Paul II’s death, apparently all Holy Fathers now go directly by courtesy line to “the home of the Father.” And there have already been murmurings of “santo subito” about Francis. In his…
